Last-Name Basis/Literature: Difference between revisions

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* Nymphadora Tonks in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' is a rare female example; she demands that people call her Tonks and not her first name. You can see her point. Her parents call her Dora, and after she gets married, so does her husband. The book doesn't address whether or not she took her husband's last name; Harry/The Narrator still thinks of her as "Tonks."

** Lupin still calls her that too ("Tonks is going to have a baby"), though he also uses "Dora" on occasion.

* In [[C. J. Cherryh]]'s ''Merovingen Nights'' [[Shared Universe]] series, Altair Jones and Thomas Mondragon always and only call each other by their last names. They've been lovers since the first book, but even in the final pages of the very last story, following a [[Big Damn Kiss]] as they escape the city, it's still "Jones" and "Mondragon."